Let's Catch Fish

Well today was our pre-fish and I will say it was pretty tough. The morning kick off is at 6 am. Wish us luck. Pics to follow tomorrow evening. Team Ace In The Hole. A. Costich

6 / 2020 .... ... 53lb 10oz carp from good old Chautauqua Lake Ny . ( Bowfishing ) .. From Brock Windoft .... After talking with biologists all morning and seei...ng the local game warden, it will not make the record book because of the definition of angling. But it is the heaviest carp ever recorded in NYS .. He also said he was having it mounted .. The current NY state record is 50 lbs .. 6ozs See more

How’s this for a tarpon off Melbourne beach fl!

Western NY angler breaks the New York State fishing record for white bass twice .. A Western New York angler last week reeled in a state record white bass on ...the Lower Niagara River while out fishing with his dad. Actually, he caught two that day that broke the record. Morgan Fonzi, 28, of Gasport in Niagara County, caught the record fish on May 6 while out fishing with his father, Capt. Joe Fonzi, of Thumbs Up Guide Service, who is a well-known fishing guide in the area. The two normally don’t get to fish together much, but with them both being off work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic they’ve been out together fishing almost every day lately .. The two often fish the Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River area, but as a result of strong northwestern winds, switched to fishing the Lower Niagara last week. They were catching bass, lake trout, steelhead and white bass. We were letting everything go except the white bass, the father said. We have some Amish friends who like to eat them so we kept them. White bass, also called silver bass, look like a small, striped bass. They swim up the Niagara River from Lake Ontario every spring to spawn. The two initially were unaware of the state record for the fish species. The current record is a 3-pound, 6-ounce fish landed in 1992 by Robert Hilton from Furnace Brook, a tributary of the Hudson River in Westchester County. It measured 18.5 inches. On May 5, the two were on the Lower Niagara and got into the white bass, keeping 25, including one that weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces, according to the scale on the father’s boat. The big one ended up getting cleaned with the rest. We googled the record the following day while out fishing and found out we could have beaten it, the father said .. That afternoon, the two once again targeted white bass on the Lower Niagara. Morgan was using a 5/8-ounce, gold Steelshad blade bait. We were using our electric motor, fishing a back eddy and slowly bouncing the blade bait off the bottom, Morgan said. This time the son caught two that were again potential record breakers, according to two different scales on the father’s boat. We were out afterward for pizza, Morgan said, saying he and his father tried to think of a place where they could get the fish officially weighed since most places were closed. The son, remembering that he worked at a nearby Tops Market during high school, called and found out his old manager was still working there. They brought the fish over and had the fish weighed on the super market’s scale. One fish weighed 3 pounds 8 ounces, the other, 3 pounds, 7 ounces both state records .. They then put the fish on ice at their house. On Friday, a state Department of Environmental Conservation fisheries biologist came to their home to verify the fish species and the weight. Morgan said he plans to have fish mounts made of both the fish, since they both were state records. The one weighing 3 pounds, 8 ounces will be the official state record. It measured 18 inches. He just got an email from the DEC it’s now officially a state record, the father said ..

.... Jason Leusch with the new Ny state record .... Here is the story ............ .Young Jason Leusch yelled from the dock at Port Bay (wayne county ny ). Got... a big one. Both father and mother were spending the spring day working outside their cottage of this embayment of Wayne County. The eight-year-old angler had already caught about 20 rock bass, so his parents were rather slow announcing that they would be right there. It was Saturday morning, May 24 at 10:25 and after a five-minute fight the rock bass finally was hauled on the dock and yes. Jason was right. It was a big one. Matter of fact, big enough to become the latest New York State Record rock bass. Holy crow, we have to weigh that one, Mike Leusch said to his son. We knew that the record rock bass for New York State was 1lb.15oz. caught in 1984. I grabbed my digital scale and the fish was 2.02. Father and son took the rock bass to Bay Bridge Sport Shop at the south end of Sodus Bay and it registered 2.0 pounds on their scale. We had a friend from Webster print the registration form and they brought it to Port Bay. Mike said. Next-up was to contact someone at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and have them certify the catch. Fishery biologist Pete Ousterman from the Region 8 Office in Avon verified the rock bass and 8-year-old Jason Leusch is now a young angler in the official record book .. This is the second record to fall here in Ny state in less than a month . Morgan Fonzi broke the White Bass earlier in May

Western NY angler breaks the New York State fishing record for white bass twice .. A Western New York angler last week reeled in a state record white bass on ...the Lower Niagara River while out fishing with his dad. Actually, he caught two that day that broke the record. Morgan Fonzi, 28, of Gasport in Niagara County, caught the record fish on May 6 while out fishing with his father, Capt. Joe Fonzi, of Thumbs Up Guide Service, who is a well-known fishing guide in the area. The two normally don’t get to fish together much, but with them both being off work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic they’ve been out together fishing almost every day lately .. The two often fish the Lake Erie, Upper Niagara River area, but as a result of strong northwestern winds, switched to fishing the Lower Niagara last week. They were catching bass, lake trout, steelhead and white bass. We were letting everything go except the white bass, the father said. We have some Amish friends who like to eat them so we kept them. White bass, also called silver bass, look like a small, striped bass. They swim up the Niagara River from Lake Ontario every spring to spawn. The two initially were unaware of the state record for the fish species. The current record is a 3-pound, 6-ounce fish landed in 1992 by Robert Hilton from Furnace Brook, a tributary of the Hudson River in Westchester County. It measured 18.5 inches. On May 5, the two were on the Lower Niagara and got into the white bass, keeping 25, including one that weighed 3 pounds, 10 ounces, according to the scale on the father’s boat. The big one ended up getting cleaned with the rest. We googled the record the following day while out fishing and found out we could have beaten it, the father said .. That afternoon, the two once again targeted white bass on the Lower Niagara. Morgan was using a 5/8-ounce, gold Steelshad blade bait. We were using our electric motor, fishing a back eddy and slowly bouncing the blade bait off the bottom, Morgan said. This time the son caught two that were again potential record breakers, according to two different scales on the father’s boat. We were out afterward for pizza, Morgan said, saying he and his father tried to think of a place where they could get the fish officially weighed since most places were closed. The son, remembering that he worked at a nearby Tops Market during high school, called and found out his old manager was still working there. They brought the fish over and had the fish weighed on the super market’s scale. One fish weighed 3 pounds 8 ounces, the other, 3 pounds, 7 ounces both state records .. They then put the fish on ice at their house. On Friday, a state Department of Environmental Conservation fisheries biologist came to their home to verify the fish species and the weight. Morgan said he plans to have fish mounts made of both the fish, since they both were state records. The one weighing 3 pounds, 8 ounces will be the official state record. It measured 18 inches. He just got an email from the DEC it’s now officially a state record, the father said ..

It’s been a great week catching blue crabs here in Melbourne Florida.

The NYS Summer Classic Fishing Tournament is back in a whole new cutting edge format! Check it out!

The 2020 NYS Summer Classic Fishing Tournament will be sporting 19 individual fish divisions, along with an all-in-one division that includes 7 species. They are being hosted on the FishDonkey platform whereby anglers will no longer be weighing in fish at stations, but rather entering fish by length at the time of the catch using an app on their cell phones. This will offer anglers more time to fish, real time updated leader boards, and the option to release the fish caught. Get all the details in the links below:

Saw this and felt it needed to be shared!

First Jack Crevalle caught this morning!

Just caught this bonnethead a member of the hammerhead shark family today Melbourne Florida!

Lady Fish 2/19/20 fishing Sebastian Inlet in the Mangroves with Zianka and my baby boy Skyler!

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Chris Wagner doing his thing this past weekend! Nice catch!!